A new resource for Icelandic sagas. Digitizing normalized editions and enhancing textual data

This article accounts for a new project which aims to digitize and make available normalized scholarly editions of Old Icelandic texts. The project is based on a print publication of Icelandic family sagas. The texts are digitized and subsequently processed as a tagged and lemmatized language corpus. The material is further enhanced by linking it to a leading dictionary (ONP). Another enhancement involves an inflectional database, that is built from the tags and lemmata in the corpus, providing detailed information about morphological forms and inflectional patterns of each attested word.

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Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
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2025-03-14
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https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.12265
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Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism
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A new resource for Icelandic sagas. Digitizing normalized editions and enhancing textual data

Ellert Þór Jóhannsson, Finnur Ágúst Ingimundarson
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism
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A new resource for Icelandic sagas. Digitizing normalized editions and enhancing textual data

Ellert Þór Jóhannsson, Finnur Ágúst Ingimundarson
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This article accounts for a new project which aims to digitize and make available normalized scholarly editions of Old Icelandic texts. The project is based on a print publication of Icelandic family sagas. The texts are digitized and subsequently processed as a tagged and lemmatized language corpus. The material is further enhanced by linking it to a leading dictionary (ONP). Another enhancement involves an inflectional database, that is built from the tags and lemmata in the corpus, providing detailed information about morphological forms and inflectional patterns of each attested word.

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries PublicationsVol. 7(3)
Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies (IS)
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Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism
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